Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Innovaro on CNBC
The latest edition of the Innovaro publication “Innovation Leaders” is now available. As the name suggests, it looks across a number of sectors to identify the companies that are leveraging innovation to the maximum benefit. You can download the summary or buy the book from the Innovation Leaders website. If you are in The States [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Innovation CULTURE,Resources by Roger Dennis
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Rich Source of Futures Thinking Resources
The Foresight Department of the UK Government Office for Science has released a new update to The Horizon Scanning Toolkit. “Exploring the future: tools for strategic futures thinking” discusses 24 different futures techniques. If you are in any way interested in futures approaches, methods and case studies, this is a treasure trove of information which [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
HBR – excellent article on strategy as a complex problem
Over at HBR, there’s a great article entitled “Strategy as a wicked problem.” This month (May) is a good time to read it, because HBR has a limited time offer of free access this month. The summary reads: Many corporations [...] have replaced the annual top-down planning ritual, based on macroeconomic forecasts, with more sophisticated [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Fringe scanning / peripheral vision,Strategy by Roger Dennis
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Replies to comments on my Sydney presentation
On the Twitter stream during Interesting South last week, there were a couple of comments which I would like to reply to. While I’d much prefer to debate points of view in person, there was no time in the conference format for a Q&A session. Secondly the people that made the comments didn’t come and [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Interesting South – Sydney Conference highlights
Last night in Sydney I presented at Interesting South. Modelled on the event of a similar name in London, it was, as the name suggests, damn interesting. The organisers aimed to capture the feeling of jumping from blog to blog – but in a face-to-face context. They succeeded. I cried twice – once when listening [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Fringe scanning / peripheral vision,Inspiration by Roger Dennis
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
CNN article on mobile sensors
Over at CNN, there’s a piece about the use of patterns found in populations that carry cell phones. I make the point in the article that this data is like watching river flows. Novel and original applications for consumer technology are not new. For example the packs of hacked robotic dogs that were programmed to [...]
